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They include many activities similar to the originals, centering on shooting muzzle-loading rifles, trade guns, and shotguns; throwing knives and tomahawks; primitive archery; as well as cooking, dancing, singing, and the telling of tall tales and of past rendezvous. Personas taken on by participants include trappers, traders, housewives ...
Barclay was a British-born frontiersman of the American West. After working in St. Louis as a bookkeeper and clerk, he worked at Bent's Old Fort. He then ventured westward where he was a trapper, hunter, and trader. [1] Beckwourth, Jim: 1798–1866 1824–1866 United States Bent, Charles: 1799–1847 1828–1846 United States Bent, William
76 mm mountain gun M48 Yugoslavia: Cold War: 76.2: RML 7 pounder Mountain Gun United Kingdom: Anglo-Zulu War / Second Boer War: 76.2: 76-mm mountain gun M1904 Russia: World War I 76.2: 76 mm mountain gun M1909 Russia / Soviet Union: World War I / World War II 76.2: 76-mm mountain gun M1938 Soviet Union: World War II 80: De Bange 80 mm cannon ...
Hunter-Trader-Trapper was an American outdoors magazine created by Arthur Robert Harding. [1] It ran from 1900 to 1938. [1] The magazine was published first in Gallia County, Ohio, and then in Columbus, Ohio. [2] In 1919 the publishers were F. J. and W. F Heer, the business manager was W. F. Heer, and the managing editor was Otto Kuechler.
The first designs of modern breechloading mountain guns with recoil control and the capacity to be easily broken down and reassembled into highly efficient units were made by Greek army engineers P. Lykoudis and Panagiotis Danglis (after whom the Schneider-Danglis gun was named) in the 1890s. Mountain guns are similar to infantry support guns.
Writers who refer to "7-pounders" in World War I are in fact referring to this 2.5-inch (64 mm) gun. Romania bought 36 of these guns in 1883–1884, being designated in the local military nomenclature as "63 mm Armstrong mountain guns model 1883". They were the first guns designed for mountain warfare in Romanian use.
Arthur Robert Harding (July 1871 – 1930), better known as A. R. Harding, was an American outdoorsman and the founder of Hunter-Trader-Trapper and Fur-Fish-Game Magazine, and publisher, editor and author of many popular outdoor how-to books of the early 1900s.
Indian gun crew firing, India, circa. 1930. The 3.7-inch howitzer superseded the 2.75-inch mountain gun following the First World War.It was used by mountain artillery regiments of the Royal Artillery and the Indian Artillery, and saw much service on the North West Frontier of India between the wars.